Quotes

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

No crime has been without a precedent.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

Crimes generally punish themselves.